confrontation definition

English confrontation definition

Etymology

From Middle French. Morphologically confront +‎ -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃən/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)

1. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
   • 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:

     During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy) […]

2. A conflict between armed forces.

Derived terms

• confrontational

Related terms

• confront

Translations

Further reading

• confrontation at OneLook Dictionary Search

French confrontation definition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

confrontation f (plural confrontations)

1. confrontation

Related terms

• confronter

Further reading

• “confrontation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.